Pennsic War If anyplace is the households home away from home, it's here. For 2 weeks every year Pennsic plays host to upwards of 50 household members.

Armour and Weapons Related Links

Heavy List/Rattan Combat Gear

Armor Requirements Check Here first for what you need to have to fight heavy list. Most of the links below will take you to places that satisfy minimum armor requirements but you need to know what to buy first.

Ashcraft Baker Armory Ashcraft Baker is an inexpensive alternative for helms. They are well made, and ugly as sin. Start with an A/B helm if you are tenative about continuing with fighting and then plan to replace it later when you know more of what you want. Their hilts for swords and shields are well priced and will hold up. The trouble with their sword baskets is that they use the little tabs that you put hose clamps on, which fail pretty often.

IronMonger Armoury Need a helm? Need it custom made/custom fit? Go here. Seriously, the helms are relatively inexpensive but high quality and depending on your budget you can get whatever you want. Most of the helms that are in use by H3S are from Eric at Ironmonger. He's starting to know our Household name and it's where we take folks at Pennsic to shop for helms. Buy Ironmonger over A/B if you know what style you want and can afford to spend a bit more for it.

Plastic Lamellar Need pre-moulded, pre-drilled lames for lamellar armour? Here you go! This is where the majority of the Household has purchased their lamellar plates. Most of us fight in this. It takes about 8-10 hours to totally string up body armor with skirting from here. It's comfortable, washable, low maintenance gear and has been approved as meeting the appearance standards for the East Kingdom.

Dark Victory Armory For those who need plate armour, but want plastic instead of metal. A lot of people start with armor from here and then part it out over time. Solid stuff that protects well with just a little padding. Even if you get plastic lamellar body armor, this is a pretty good place to look for arms and legs and gorgets. Their demi-gauntlets are the most flexible and comfortable I've found.

Bokalo's Armoury Bokalo's makes great aluminum armor. Their cops are great if you want or can build your own arms and legs. Their gorgets are really snazzy, too. Turnaround is good and the owner is a reliable, decent person.

HH Perkins This is where we usually get rattan from. It's better to get together with a few other fighters and do a group order to save on the shipping.

Stonekeep Armory Stonekeep turns out good munitions grade armor. I've ordered a bunch of their cops but then not used them for various reasons not related to their quality. I'd take a chance on them for the price.

Windrose Armoury Windrose is not really an armory in and of itself. It's a collective coop storefront for selling premade wares from a variety of different armorers. They are kind of like the ebay of Armor, except it's a limited number of vetted vendors.

Rapier Gear

Zen Warrior Armoury A sub-branch of Triplette Competition Arms. Decent lower-mid range fencing gear. From foils/epees to Schlagers and protective gear. Highly recommend going here first if you're interested in Rapier as the cost is low and the quality decent.

Darkwood Armoury For higher end fencing equipment. Extremely high quality, but you'll pay for it. Recommended for those who are more than the casual fencer. Rapiers, side-swords, daggers, and some other custom equipment.

James The Just Higher End Rapiers and Daggers. All custom work, not break the bank expensive like Darkwood but not quite as finely crafted.

Alchem Blades Well... they make swords. That's for sure. They also make Rapier pikes. If you want cheaper side-swords, this is the place to look at.

Gipsy Peddler Custom fit Rapier weight clothing. Don't want to sew it yourself? Here's the place. They'll do a lot of customizing but the more you do the more expensive.

Airsoft

[1] It's probably the biggest airsoft place local on Long Island. Can buy the gun, gear and they even have an indoor arena.

Real Weapons

Cold Steel An assorted of very well made personal defense weaponry. highly recommended for those who want high quality, useable weapons.